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The storm of our life
So many thanks to each of You who has thought to check in on us here in Nashville after the tremendous tornado that blew through our lives early Tuesday morning — super Tuesday 2020 will forever have a different meaning for us. We’re safe…now. But there are so many others — people who live just […]
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Lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from the Evil One
Father, I pray that You protect me from the temptations of Satan, the evil one. Guide my path and give me such insight — Your sight — to see beyond my earthly desires. Help me to understand and long for Your heavenly desire for me. Help me to follow where You lead and to pitch […]
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When I’m feeling restless and dissatisfied
What should I do, Holy Lord? How should I be, when I’m feeling restless and dissatisfied? 1. Turn around, retrace your steps, figure out where you lost your way, where you lost sight of My love for you.2. If you search and search to no avail, do as Mary and Joseph did when they lost […]
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Precious love
Holy Spirit, that perfect love between God, our Father, and Jesus, His fully human, fully divine Son. A love in which the child adores, trusts implicitly, honors and obeys the Father,While the Father cherishes His Child with affectionSo sweet,So precious,Filled with protection and guidance,Support and loving correction. As we watch from a distance,The Father’s and […]
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Love You. Trust You. Look to You. Rely on You.
In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen. Good afternoon, Father. Thank You for this beautiful day that You’ve given us in Your mercy and Your delight. My daughter continues to be sad about her favorite pet’s and other’s recent deaths in her life and she’s still suffering from […]
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All that I am is Yours
Born into dysfunctionand diseaseand disinformation,I entered blindand lameand dumbTo Your will and to Your perfect love. Oh Lord, I didn’t know You. I didn’t know how to search for YouOr what to look for. I didn’t know who to ask,Nor even the right questionsTo learn about You. Crippled by my ignoranceVulnerable in my loneliness,I leaned […]
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Thanksgiving trepidation
Thank You, Father, for being here with me this beautiful day. I want never to take You for granted, Lord, for all the beautiful days that You provide me, in Your mercy, especially this time of the year. And yet, I invariably do. Give me, I pray, holy Lord, a spirit of perpetual thanks and […]
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Impeachment anxiety
Thank You, Lord, for being here with me — waiting for me to be here, too — as I come to You. The chaos and cacophony of our time — so troubled, so troubling — so wearying, so worrisome — sends me into flurries of activity. As the storms rage around me, little blasts of […]
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Divine anticipation
That feeling. That sense of excitement. Of an inexplicable, almost physical knowingness. Signaling something momentous is about to happen. Something extraordinary. I have naught to do but wait In the full incredulous knowledge that You are at work and About to reveal Yourself In my life, In the world, In Your perfect answer to prayer. […]
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Love Song
Words don’t flow the same way, Father, when I speak to ones other than You. The point of my story is too easily lost, when I lose sight of You. And my purpose dims, when my eyes turn from You. I only want to write to You, Father, My Heart. My words are meaningless and […]